A newly discovered series of cave drawings is changing the way scientists think about Neanderthals, and could help to change some long-held beliefs about how one long-dead branch of our own family ...

It’s 100 degrees and the Arizona sun is beating down, sweat dripping down the faces of visitors. With camera in one hand and a water bottle in the other, guests walk up the stairs leading to Colossal ...

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio — The angel at the trailhead is a sobering sight. The unusual marker sits at the trail that leads to Hosak’s Cave at Salt Fork State Park in Guernsey County in east-central Ohio. The ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This composite image from the book "Borneo, Memory of the Caves" shows the world's oldest figurative artwork dated to a minimum of ...

A red, crosshatched design adorning a rock from a South African cave may take the prize as the oldest known drawing. Ancient humans sketched the line pattern around 73,000 years ago by running a chunk ...

Nine red lines on a stone flake found in a South African cave may be the earliest known drawing made by Homo sapiens, archaeologists reported on Wednesday. The artifact, which scientists think is ...

Several years ago, there was a jovial debate why Chris Messina, a former Google designer who proposed Twitter use the hashtag to sort topics, did not patent the idea and make millions off it – it ...

45,500 years is a long, long time. It is nearly 23 times as long as the distance between the point at which you are reading this article and the birth of Jesus Christ. It is roughly 9 times as long as ...

(CNN) — Up a rocky cliff face, through a narrow opening, and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting that archaeologists say is the world’s oldest known example of storytelling in art history.